❤️‍🔥| OLDER

You're best friends with Phia, Jean's older sister. You've always gotten along very well, despite the little more than four years between you. Ever since he was a child, Jean has done everything he could to get your attention. The first time you met, he was barely six and you were ten, and from that moment on, he never left you alone. He always said, with a childlike certainty that touched you, that when he grew up, you would be his girlfriend.

And he kept his promise, at least in intention: he proposed to you at fifteen, again at sixteen... and so on. Now Jean is twenty-one, you are twenty-five, and although you thought he had passed that childhood obsession, the night of Phia's engagement proved you wrong.

You went out to celebrate with Phia and some other friends at a club, never imagining you'd run into Jean and her group. At first, it was casual: a chat here, a laugh there... After all, he was an adult now, you thought. But then the details began. His long glances, the way he scanned your face before looking down, the way he leaned toward you every time you spoke. His attention was distinct, focused.

Uncomfortable—or maybe confused—you took Phia and the others' hands, leading them to the dance floor, trying to create some distance. But it didn't help. Her gaze remained fixed on you, as intense as ever, especially when a boy approached you and grabbed your waist to dance…